Three simple things to improve your marketing.

Holy freakin' crap.

Worth 1000's Corporate Sponsorship photoshop contest. It's pretty funny.

17 Things You Might Not Know You Could Do With iWork

If you have the program of course..

And I thought I had a simple internal hard drive to USB adapter.

this is even cooler!

OurMedia

We'll host your media on our servers forever, for free. No catches.

(suhweet)

Want to learn about photoblogging?

Shutterbug is ready to help you

The Inquirer reports on the top 10 spyware programs and what they do for Windows machines.

good to know if you run any version of Windows.

The new revisions of Apple Powerbooks (the computer I'm posting from right now) have a cool new feature called Sudden Motion Sensor. It's essentially a device that senses when teh computer is dropped or strongly vibrated, and it will turn off your hard drive temporarily, to lessen damage to the computer.

But hackers have already figured out how to take advantage of this thing in other (very cool) ways.

Wired News
Geek News Central

Have an ipod? Want a bigger hard drive (within the next month I imagine my music collection will outgrow my 40gb ipod...)?

Behold, the iPod hard drive upgrade.

Cheaper than a new hard drive, it's pretty cool.

Some commonly used quotes that don't mean what we think they mean. In context at least...

courtesy of the Volokh Conspiracy.

This was an official part of Google for one day, and then it was taken down.

But it's mirrored here, Google X, the google homage to OS X.

Some guy made a solar death ray.

No seriously, it hits it's target at an estimated 930 to 1100 degrees farenheit.

Some guy has been putting his own art in NY art museums

When I told Katherine about that during our date to the Art Museum last weekend, she laughed and said "Good for him!"

Professional Protesters?

Mac Friendly is a site dedicated for the Mac Based business person. Including a section on file types and how to port them to the mac, it looks to be very thorough. Awesomeness!

"GraphicJunkies is a site maintained by an active law enforcement officer in the state of Georgia. I work in teh South West Atlanta area. All of the photographs on this site were taken by me while on duty."

It's awesome. (Found it here)

Gizmodo links to a review of teh Sleepwatcher Alarm Watch, which actually wakes you up at the lightest part of your sleep cycle, so taht you're more fully rested in the morning.

$150 though...

Trendmapper is an awesome site that lets you watch a word or phrase on google to see how much they are searched for.

Seems like a great thing for people who are looking to improve their googlejuice.

MusicBrainz is a free program that will find missing track information in your music library. Very handy.

Helpful more to me than anyone else, here are the Ten Commandments of Freelancing.

Well I didn't have the patience to let it fully load, so I'm sure I missed out, but this is an awesome website designed around the iPod

This article has been all over the blogs the past two weeks, but for good reason: it's awesome.

Newscientist.com presents Thirteen Things that Do Not Make Sense

Google Print is yet another service from the brand that is out to take over the world.

Google Tutor has the lowdown on how to use it.

Ain't it Cool News got a sweet inside tour of Pixar's facility.

I'm so jealous, that place looks awesome!

Roger Simon has done some real blogger journalism on the Oil for Food Scandal.

Church Marketing Sucks is a new blog meant to Frustrate, Educate, and Motivate the Church to communicate, with uncompromising clarity, the truth of Jesus Christ.

Sounds pretty cool.

A possible new carnival of the playlists

sounds cool to me :)

With all the popularity of hacks, it's no real surprise. But still this is cool, someone turned an old typwriter into a computer keyboard. I want one!

The IHT reports that Sudan has accused 15 officials of Darfur crimes.

Some pundits believe this is a measure taken to defer the soon to be voted on security resolution condemning Sudan in the UN.

Today Zimbabwe had elections. Sort of.

Publius has a roundup of news that was posted today (you can find it here)

Here's some more news I've found - it's nice to see the Blogosophere has noticed this countries horrible plight.

The Zimbabwean, News from exiled Zimbabwe journalists.

NYT Editorial remarking that the situation is so bad, Zimbabweans would rather go back to the racist government pre-Mugabe.

This is Zimbabwe arguably the first blog from Zimbabwe...

Norman Geras has a roundup of voices from inside Zimbabwe.

Article with lots of background information

Tony Woodlief has posted living will

It's pretty hilarious.

If anyone is interested in the future of High Def and Digital television, there's now a new Digital Television Blog.

The NYT reviews Sin City and compares it's violence and gore to that of Pulp Fiction or Resevoir Dogs (i've only seen the former).

Metacritic gives it a 73 out of 100 and Rotten Tomatoes gives it the same thing.

I'm ready to see it...

If you run a blog or some sort of website (MP, I'm looking your way :-P) this 4 link round up from lifehacker might be of use.

Web site owners HOWTO

The Volokh Conspiracy (a UCLA prof's blog) has a great poston why Intellectual Diversity in colleges matters. It's good analysis, and one of the big reasons that I chose Bryan College.

BeLight Software is giving away an iPod mini if you have a funny story regarding business cards

BeLight Software announces a contest on the most original, funny or unusual use of business cards that you experienced or heard of, alternatively send us an amusing business card sample you have. The best sample or the best story will be chosen by BeLight Software and the independent judge, Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, and its owner awarded with an iPod mini. Two runner ups will get boxed editions of Business Card Composer.

First up in a whole slew of posts...
Dr. John Mark Reynolds has a good post defending modern times. It's specifically written against Christian academia... pragmatic and poignant, it's a great read.

40 surfers ride giant surfboard.

"The Movie Midas"

An article on Lions Gate Films, who continually puts out quality movies.

Who knew that the whole world is protesting?

Some interesting protests going on around the world - rounded up by Publius Pundit.

Could extreme poverty be eradicated in 25 years?

Sweet! A magnetic white board for a wall!

A somber reminder from the Economist that slavery is still happening around the world.

Apple has a cool story about an indie filmmaker.

Scoble links to a cool tag you can add to your blog to let people know where to go:

10placesofmycity (technorati)

Three movies I'd be interesting in seeing.

::goes to check netflix::

Russell Beattie has an interesting take on mobile gadget form factors (it's visual for those of us who are visual learners).

Pretty interesting examination... makes you think about other things in your life that have certain form factors.

Hackaday presents a hack to add a regular 3.5in hard driveto your ipod.

You could have up to 300gb of storage...something like 75,000 songs.

LIBERTAS has excerpts from the 60 Minutes segment onTheo Van Gogh (grandson of Vincent, and filmmaker).

Van Gogh was murdered by Muslims a few months ago because of the film he was making regarding honor killings and the lack of woman's rights in Dutch Islamic society.

You know it's a dictatorship when...
(funny but true)

How to Inform Design
(a presentation from the SxSW design festival that was last week)

Some good analysis on the situation in Lebanon.

(there were an estimated 1 million people at the Anti-Syria rally last Tuesday)

A democrat examines the arguments against abortion from a logic and science standpoint...

Very interesting, very long.

Here are 38 helpful gmail tips.

and if you don't have gmail, and would like it, I have some extra invites, cuz I never really worried about giving them out!

Cracks in the North Korea regime?

The age of globalization is awesome...

I don't know about anyone else but this article pretty much sums up my experience with my powerbook "in the wild."

A lil over a month ago I was up at Barnes and Noble with a friend (each of us have Powerbooks) and a guy walked up after getting his coffee, and his jaw literally dropped at our computers.

Yeah, Mac's are beautiful.

Caution! Link has swearing

Hilarious halo 2 video!

Holy crap. A 144 mega-pixel camera!

The Long Tail.

You should know about it...read a brief description year.

The concept was originally introduced in this Wired article.

It's the future of marketing - and something that will be explored more and more in the coming years.

A new series of essays from teh University of California press that argues despite somewhat inconsistent justifications provided by the US regarding the war in Iraq, it was morally justified.

If I had $21.95, I'd buy it because I'm very interested in it.

Want to learn the basic terms of the components in your hard drive? Or find out how Hard drives work in general?

Read this short article

Tony Woodlief is an amazing writer. I love his stuff. Observe:

...do you think in Heaven we're going to be singing "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" like a bunch of bloodless white Methodists?

Hell no.

Yes, I'm feisty today. But in a righteous, let's-burn-this-motha-down way.

Read the article, it's not very long but it's a poignant reminder of what being a Christian is about...

Some more updates on Zimbabwe, from the Guardian

Scroll to the bottom of this page, is there going to be a possible peaceful rebellion during the election?

And a new UNICEF report tells us that the Child Death rate is the highest in the world.